Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bosh"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough
stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught,
sketch.]
Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Turk.]
Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bosh \Bosh\, n.; pl. {Boshes}. [Cf. G. b["o]schung a slope.]
1. One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast
furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of
the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes
inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and
ingots are cooled.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bosh
n : pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {baloney}, {boloney},
{bilgewater}, {drool}, {humbug}, {taradiddle}, {tarradiddle},
{tommyrot}, {tosh}, {twaddle}]
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